The automaker unveiled its next luxury sports car at an event in Texas. It has thrusters on it that can send it airborne. On Thursday night, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk unveiled what's been billed as the company's last human-driven car. Maybe human-piloted is a more accurate way to say it. At a demonstration event McGregor, Texas--at SpaceX's rocket development and testing facility--the new car did what Musk has long promised.

Tesla's Roadster 2 Is Late--and Entering a Different EV World Nine years after its reveal, the overdue Roadster is set to debut on Thursday to an EV market that has grown skeptical of electric hypercars. Almost nine years ago, a tanned, relatively well-rested-looking CEO named Elon Musk announced that his electric car company would make a new sports car, the Tesla Roadster 2. It would be "the fastest sports car ever made, period," Musk said on stage in 2017. "The point of doing this is to give a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars." Lights flashed, and the red prototype did a few speedy laps behind him. Musk is the leading donor to a political party that last year nixed buying incentives for electric vehicles and last month adjusted fuel-economy standards to make it easier for automakers to skip making EVs altogether.